Author: Kaveh Mofidi

  • Tips To Buy And Implement SIEM Solution

    Use following checklist to make sure you are on the right track to choose your first or next SIEM solution. The whole process takes 1-4 weeks based on your dedication and vendor availability. Remember the worst thing is being in rush in five four steps: Write a plan Write down all the steps you anticipate…

  • Commitment: The Sole Reason Behind Hackers Supremacy

    Would you put more complex firewall rules when internal nodes are vulnerable due to initial default insecure setup, or setup numerous security tools while setting up more and more insecure nodes at the same time?!

  • Five signs IT is overwhelmed with operations

    There are signs before your IT department faces a disaster or worse, jeopardize your business by affecting tech operations in different departments. Those are signs of an overwhelmed IT so let’s take a look at common signs and symptoms: 1) Lack of resourcesWhenever your IT staff are always talking about lack of resources be aware…

  • Five Reasons to Start Your SIEM Initiative Today

    Regardless of how SIEM in today’s cybersecurity marketing campaign is driven mainly by Compliance, which solutions is the best, and whether it should be managed or on-premises, Security Information and Event Management is conceptually accepted among security professionals so here’s my top reasons to consider SIEM implementation as one of your cybersecurity initiatives: Another tool…

  • Privacy: Does Cyberspace Leave Any For Us?!

    What does ‘Privacy’ exactly mean to you, and is there anything left for us in cyberspace?

  • Vulnerability Management Elements

    being able to dynamically connect and correlate data to different part of a vulnerability management interface is crucial.

  • Manage Numerous IT Projects With No Resource Constraints

    IT resource management is crucial in chaotic environments where multiple projects collide…  The most obvious challenge of IT managers is to make sure they meet deadlines and projects deliverables in a timely manner. This is more tangible in environments where tons of big and small projects overlap in shared resources. That is a sign of resource constraint. By resource, I mean IT…

  • Why Management Fails

    The disconnect I’ve spent years watching managers fail at the most basic part of their job: understanding the work they’re managing. Not all of them, I’ve met exceptions but most of the people I’ve dealt with across my career fall into the same pattern. They give orders with confidence, but they have no idea what…

  • GDPR Facts & Challenges

    Let’s list some of GDPR facts and challenges: Estimated time of engagement will be end of 2018 All recent cyber incidents in US made Europe totally suspicious to US privacy and cyber reliability GDPR is simply a data privacy compliance regime to force other countries to comply with Europe. Cyberspace was 100% ruled by US…

  • Does JavaScript Pose A Security Risk?

    Javascript is a silent threat! I no longer am able to imagine the current structure of the web without JavaScript. This is about online applications in form of traditional websites, otherwise traditional web interfaces won’t be able to handle the applications and web would collapse without JS! That does not mean I am a fan…